Gimme Coffee

Stone fruit turns up in three of Gimme Coffee's tasting notes, tied with the word balanced for the most common descriptor anywhere on the list. That pairing says most of what this catalog is after. The roaster works out of the Northeast and keeps 13 coffees active, eight single origins and five blends, so blends hold a bit under 40 percent of the shelf.

Buying is spread thin on purpose. Ethiopia and Guatemala each supply two single origins, and Burundi, Colombia, Honduras, and Peru supply one apiece, which puts six countries behind eight coffees and leaves almost no room for two lots from the same place at the same time. Processing detail is published for four of the eight, split evenly between washed and natural.

Prices run $19.75 to $27.50 for a 12 ounce bag, with the median at $22.50. That is a spread of under eight dollars from the cheapest coffee on the list to the most expensive, and it means a shopper picking blind here is choosing between flavors rather than between price tiers. Nothing in the lineup is decaffeinated.

Single Origins

Blends

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

Eight of the 13 coffees are roasted medium. Two sit at medium-light, two at medium-dark, and one goes dark, which puts 12 of the 13 within a single step of the center and leaves this catalog with very little spread at the ends. Acidity averages medium and body averages a shade higher, so the cups tend to carry more weight than lift.

The origin list crosses East Africa and Latin America without settling in either one. Ethiopia and Guatemala lead with two coffees each, and four more countries contribute a single lot. Where processing is published it splits down the middle, two washed and two natural, which reads as a roaster that will take fruit-forward fermentation but does not build the whole list on it. Bags are 12 ounces. The band runs $19.75 to $27.50.

What Gimme Coffee Coffees Tend to Taste Like

Balance is the note the roaster reaches for most, and the tasting language backs it up. Stone fruit appears three times and berry twice, with a cherry marker and a bright fruit marker rounding out the orchard side. Chocolate holds the other pole, plain in two coffees and dark in two more, and one blend carries a chocolate mousse note that suggests texture as much as flavor.

The word clean shows up twice, which usually means the cup finishes without anything hanging around. Citrus appears once and bitterness once. Read the whole vocabulary at once and what emerges is a middle path, fruit on one side and cocoa on the other, with neither pushed far enough to unsettle a drinker who takes coffee with milk.

Why Buy Gimme Coffee

• A tight roast band: Twelve of the 13 active coffees fall within one step of medium, so the catalog behaves predictably across brew methods.

• Six countries, eight coffees: Ethiopia and Guatemala lead the single origins, with Burundi, Colombia, Honduras, and Peru each contributing one.

• Fruit and cocoa in balance: Stone fruit and berry notes appear five times across the list, chocolate five, which is as close to even as a catalog gets.

• Prices that stay in one lane: The 12 ounce bag runs $19.75 to $27.50, a spread narrow enough that the most expensive coffee on the shelf sits beside the cheapest without looking like a different product.

Is Gimme Coffee Right for You?

Order here if you want fruit and chocolate in the same cup without a light roast's acidity. Eight of 13 coffees sit at medium, the body runs a touch fuller than the acidity, and the notes cluster around stone fruit and cocoa rather than around jasmine or lemon. It is a forgiving list for a drip machine.

Look elsewhere if you need decaf, since the active list has none. Look elsewhere too if you collect processing experiments. Fermentation detail is published for only four of the eight single origins, and those four split evenly between the two most common methods in coffee.

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